Tag: Oxfam

• More Oxfam Goodies

  Just look what I found in the Oxfam shop! This…  And this… I do love book hunting, especially when I strike literary gold! I’ve been looking out for a copy of Nicola Beauman’s A Very Great Professionfor quite some time, so when I spotted this 1983 Virago edition how could I resist? Basically, it’s a…

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  June 24, 2015

  A Very Great Profession, Jean Rhys, Nicola Beauman, Oxfam, Tigers are Better-Looking, Virago Modern Classic

• Spring Bulbs, Marmalade, Sulphur and Soup!

  I was brought up in Surrey, and I love gardening books, so Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, by Mrs CW Earle, seemed tailor-made for me, and I succumbed to its delights as soon as I spotted it (in a box of Oxfam donations, of course).  It turns out that Mrs E’s country residence was in…

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  February 23, 2015

  bulbs, cookery book, Oxfam, Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden; Mrs CW Earle; gardening book, Rading England 2015, soup, Surrey

• There Will Be No New Books….

  I am the first to admit that volunteering in an Oxfam Book Shop is not necessarily the best of activities for someone who has resolved that there will be No New Books. But the other volunteers are so nice, and our customers are unbelievably lovely… And, of course, there are the books. I’m like a…

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  January 30, 2015

  A Game of Hide and Seek, Black Narcissus, Chaucer, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Oxfam, The Dud Avocado

• Spellbound by a Sparkling Story!

  Happy New Year people! I’m still here – I haven’t gone anywhere, and I certainly haven’t given up blogging. But I cannot believe I haven’t posted anything since the middle of November, and I haven’t really got much of an explanation. I’ve been trying to get ‘social media’ stuff up and running for Oxfam Lichfield,…

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  January 1, 2014

  Advent, Christmas, Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark, New Year, Oxfam

• Cupcake heaven – stitched and baked!

  And now for something completely different. Cup cakes! I have been making edible and non-edible varieties. The ones intended for consumption came courtesy of a recipe in The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days: Recipes to make every day special, by Tarek Malouf, which I came across when I visited a friend who had been given a…

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  February 24, 2012

  cooking, cup cakes, embroidery, Oxfam, pincushions